Ballads which hace crane motifs in the Turk folk literature

The existance of the animals in the world endurres old like mankind has testified o lot of animete?s existance since the creatian. Because of the various occasians these animals have became extraardinary to the people and have been satisfied. Today thousands specialist according to their continents and their horse, cow, monkey, dog, eagle, hawk, pigean, crane, ete, canstitude culturel elements fort the society.If we look at the Turkish history culture we can see that Turks live together with the animals and they have been effected from the animals.Turk societies who put account of the sheep, horse, eagle, dove, stark extremely, look at the crane like this too. Crane become a holy animal for a lot of Turk tinders who have lived in the central asia?s infotile and hord climate. Turk societies have used the crane in their belief elements, ceremonies, ballods, lullabies, riddles, stories crofts and architectures. Its holiness which endure before the İslamism have came until todey. And in this connection in our study we tried to mention, the place of crane in the Turk culture and bollods. We evaluated the survey titled ? Ballads which have crane motifs in Turk folk literature ? which constitute the subject of study in seven main parts.In the firs chapter of the survey we explained some animals which was accepted holy. And we made this we explanation by dividing the animals wihch are birds or not we evaluated the animals like phoenix, goose, partridge, horse, bear, wolf, deer, monkey snake according to their culturel and artistic directions; we mentioned their places in tradition.In the secand chapter, we made the etymogic definition of crane and we explained their speciatities and kinds. We gave the details of fifteen kinds of cranes which were seen in the world. In the third chapter, we evalvated the crane according to the Turk and the world cultures we explained why their different kinds become a subject in nations cultures. We mentioned how crane was used in religious ceremonies, religions, folk dance, literatures and arts in Turkish, Kırghıs, Yakut, Japanese, Chinese and Australion cultures.In the fourth chapter, we evalvated the crane in Turkish literature. By mentioning the place of the crane in the folk literature, classical attomal literature and new literature we defined the place of crane in lullabies, folk staries and tongue twistars,In the fifth chapter we included the holiness of crane ın Alevis-Bektashi belief. Especially in this belief element we determined why they sacrify the crane and how they become a subject in folk songs and in sema performances. While doing this we benefited from the model works of Pir Sultan Abdal, Karacaoğlan, Kul Hüseyin and Şah Hatayi.In the sixth chapter we made the classification of ballads which crane exist in we collected the ballads which include different emotions in seven chapter and we explained these emotions with example ballods.In the seventh chapter of the survey we mentioned the ballod texts which include cranes, we dealed with ballads which have crane motifs. At the end of the study we put the pictures of cranes and note of the ballads which have crane.